2017 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 10 - TAXATION
Chapter 25 - Tax Deeds
§ 10-25-44 Limitation of proceedings to contest tax deed--Defenses in action by tax-deed grantee.
10-25-44. Limitation of proceedings to contest tax deed--Defenses in action by tax-deed grantee. No action may be commenced by the former owner or by any person claiming under him, to recover possession of any real property which has been sold and conveyed by deed for nonpayment of taxes or to avoid such deed, unless such action is commenced within one hundred eighty days after the recording of such deed. No defense may be interposed or maintained by the former owner, or by any person claiming under him, in any action brought to quiet the title in the grantee in any tax deed, or by any person claiming under such grantee, in any tax deed issued and delivered by any county treasurer of any county in this state, unless such defense is interposed within one hundred eighty days after the recording of such tax deed in the Office of the Register of Deeds of the county in which the real estate described in such tax deed is located.
Source: SL 1901, ch 56, § 1; RPolC 1903, § 2214; SL 1903, ch 70; RC 1919, § 6825; SDC 1939, § 57.0903; SL 1941, ch 337; SL 1983, ch 77; SL 1993, ch 91.
